Sebastian Trüg has been working on K3b for a long time now and his computer has always served well for development. However it is now old and showing the first signs of senility. In order to keep up his work on K3b he needs a new machine. That is why the K3b fundraiser has been launched. The goal is to collect €1000 Euro by 31st March 2006. If you are willing to donate you can do so using PayPal or a bank transfer. There will be one major reward and that is K3b 1.0.

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Within the EU you can do bank transfers easily and for free if you just know some information about the recipient and the account. I think this is something that EU law requires, and I assume Sebastian lives in Europe.

For a bank transfer to work you need the IBAN (international bank acount number?) and BIC (bank ? ?) codes, a full name and probably an address. That way anyone with a decent bank that has a decent web interface can easily contribute. At least all the Finnish ones I've seen have this functionality easily accessible.

"This is Europe, not USA. Knowing account number is useless to you when you want to withdraw money here, you actually have to prove your right to do it. What a concept, eh?"

The same is true in the USA. However, there are always ways to "prove" that you're someone you're not. No security measure is perfect --what a concept. And not being a chauvinist dick -- what a concept.

Just wondering if KDE Ev couldn't set up a creditcard payment site and act as mediator for fundraising within KDE. I don't use paypal and for undisclosed reasons I cant make international money transfers (which is also both slow and complex to do), but a credit card 'payment' (if done correctly) is fast, secure and convenient.

Pretty sure it would make it easier for a lot of people to contribute with such a system.

Yes, I also think this might be a nice idea. Currently, if you want to contrivute some money, you have to send some money to your paypal account first and then start there a transaction. Paypal might be nice for somebody who is using it regulary, but I would prefere a "normal" money transfer to somewhere.

However, in my opinion this could get problematic quite quickly. Handing out money in a volunteer community always puts some strain on the members of the community. I think it would be difficult for e.V. to determine who and under what circumstances cash could be handed out. Right now, it's generally limited to very tangible expenses -- traveling on behalf of KDE, promotional costs, conference registration and insurance, etc. When you start handing out money (not, say, old hardware or whatever) people often think, "Why not me too?"

Well, that kind of misses the point. First it's paypal, and secondly I was thinking of KDE ev. acting as a mediator for fundraising projects with each project having it's own 'account' number or something... So if e.g. K3B wants to have a fundraising initiative, KDE ev. would have the infrastructure to make a special 'account' for just that.

Konqueror has a market share between 1 and 2%. Let's take a conservative approach and choose 1%. If 1billion of people have internet connection this makes 10million of konqueror users. More than enough.

I think, atleast 100 to 150 million cds/dvds must have been burned using your s/w. You have been extremely important to us as far as archiving digital information on optical media is concerned. May 1.0 happen smoothly for you. God bless you Sebastian.

I think k3b is the best application for KDE, hands down. I don't burn CDs often, but whenever I do I use k3b - and it just works! This is in contrast to winblows where you have to download some proprietary crippleware that typically can't even burn an ISO image.

Are there any plans to include K3B into KDE 4? Would it change to K4B, or maybe a more user-friendly name?

I have a couple of suggestions that would make the integration a little more slick:

A right-click service for device icons, so that if I have a CD-ROM under media:/ I can choose to Copy CD..., etc.

Also, for actions that perform a simple task, such as copying a CD, burning an ISO, etc., there is no need to pop up the entire K3b application window in the background. It would be much cleaner to just show the dialog pertaining to the action. The only time the application window is needed is when you have an open-ended request (such as "burn these files to cd").